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odd jobs
i have many hearts
one’s a stick
i snap it over my knee
can’t help it
can’t help it
smoke
stacks
a big school
publics you out
ironfist pounds a cloud’s
all you got so what
so what
jobs jobs jobs
every 20 minutes
years ago you’d walk 20 minutes
in any direction
and there’d be another dialect
frankie tells rosanna
every 20 minutes no matter
what direction you walked
frankie’s tone never changes
i can’t tell if he laments
a more integrated yet homogenized
present or if he prefers it
he whistles right past me
conversation
you said if Bush won the election again we’d move to my country, she said.
i’m not ready to move yet, he said.
if you’re not ready now, you’ll never be.
i don’t know if i can move there. no offense, but your country’s pretty racist and classist.
you say the same thing about your country, she said.
it’s not the same. this country has essential freedoms that your country doesn’t.
such as what?
such as freedom of speech, he said.
we have freedom of speech, she said.
oh yeah, what happens if i protest the government because i disagree with them about something? huh? i disappear, that’s what happens. i disappear.
why would you be protesting the government? when do you protest the government here?
the whole way i live my life is a protest.
is it? well, you can live the same way in my country.
you don’t understand – look, it’s the principle of the matter. i need to know that i have that freedom.
this is why you are spoiled. this is why americans are spoiled.
presence
DREDGING = JOBS
duh
the walt whitman bridge is no cheaper
than the ben franklin
lay on the horn all you want
you know by looking at the dunkin donuts
the present’s not a divider
the present’s a uniter
you know by looking at the dunkin donuts
walt whitman is buried in
ben franklin is buried in
and the delaware river’s a zombie
